Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 3 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 5 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
| 6 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
| 7 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
| 8 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 9 | In short , the strategic choice in British and American urban policy has not been simply about the encouragement of economic development , it is also about the changing nature of that development itself , more specifically the changing nature of the labour process in an economy designed for the post-Fordist era ( Lash and Urry , 1987 ; Murray , 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 11 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 12 | He had certainly not been here on the day that she and her parents had briefly visited Leo 's quarters . |
| 13 | This popularity has not been all to the good , but having said that , the Rottweiler has now made friends who are concerned with his welfare . |
| 14 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
| 15 | Provided they 've not been out of the job all that long , I think , cos things change , do n't they ? |
| 16 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |
| 17 | ‘ How about something really radical on the dangers of sunbathing without blocker ? ’ said Helena , who had just found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there at the beginning of the summer . |
| 18 | Williams had not been there during the vital moments when the kidnapping had taken place . |
| 19 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 20 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 21 | This had not been so with the earliest stages as drawn in The German Ideology or Formen because even here Marx talks of ‘ slavery being inherent in the family ’ and the universality of class relations . |
| 22 | Tushingham 's second place in the Flying Dutchman , after winning the final race , was particularly impressive as British sailors have not been so near the top of this class since the era of Rodney Pattisson . |
| 23 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 24 | I 've already been out among the galaxies . ’ |
| 25 | And that 's er that 's a process that we 've just been through with the Harrogate and Knaresborough local plan . |
| 26 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 27 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 28 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 29 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |